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I have been informed by ONKYO that they are just about to release the first Pro-Logic II recievers onto the market in June this year? They will let you listen to 5.1 surround from any 2 channel source including SKY and normal terrestial TV as well as audio CD's.

No, there will be (and are) Pro Logic II receivers before the Onkyo. Dolbys list of announced products follows. Also, please remember that Pro Logic II is not a 5.1 system, it is a matrix decode process, just like Pro Logic, it simply derives five channels from the source material instead of four. Only discrete digital formats such as Dolby Digital, DTS and MPEG-Audio can carry 5.1 discrete channels. The correct way of describing Pro Logic II in numerical terms is: 4:2:5 (the 4:2 being Dolby Surround encoding and 2:5 being Pro Logic II decoding).

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I have been informed by ONKYO that they are just about to release the first Pro-Logic II recievers onto the market in June this year? They will let you listen to 5.1 surround from any 2 channel source including SKY and normal terrestial TV as well as audio CD's. I am waiting to receive my unit as soon as they are released as I believe ONKYO are at the cutting edge of this new technology. The guy I spoke to at ONKYO says they have 3 new units and they really have to be heard to be believed?